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Tue Jan 14 12:00:48 EST 2014 
On 2014-01-14 16:37, Florian Lindner wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I'm using python 3.2.3 on debian wheezy. My script is called from my mail delivery agent (MDA) maildrop (like procmail) through it's xfilter directive.
>
> Script works fine when used interactively, e.g. ./script.py < testmail but when called from maildrop it's producing an infamous UnicodeDecodeError:
>
> File "/home/flindner/flofify.py", line 171, in main
>       mail = sys.stdin.read()
> File "/usr/lib/python3.2/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
>       return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
>
> Exception for example is always like
>
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x82 in position 869: ordinal not in range(128)
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 1176: ordinal not in range(128)
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x8c in position 846: ordinal not in range(128)
>
> I read mail from stdin "mail = sys.stdin.read()"
>
> Environment when called is:
>
> locale.getpreferredencoding(): ANSI_X3.4-1968
> environ["LANG"]: C
>
> System environment when using shell is:
>
> ~ % echo $LANG
> en_US.UTF-8
>
> As far as I know when reading from stdin I don't need an decode(...) call, since stdin has a decoding. I also tried some decoding/encoding stuff but changed nothing.
>
> Any ideas to help me?
>
When run from maildrop it thinks that the encoding of stdin is ASCII.
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